News and Links
Protocol
Last week’s core dev call with substantial issuance reduction conversation from the community. Notes. [As I press send, a decision was made that a reduction to 2 ETH was the clear community consensus]
[Eth 2.0] Latest Eth 2.0 implementer call. Agenda.
[Eth 2.0] Ethereum 2.0 dev onboarding
[Eth 2.0] Scalability so far in 2018 by Ben Edgington
[Sharding] Simple synchronous cross-shard transaction protocol
Vitalik: “layer 1 should be innovative in the short term but less in the long term”
[Plasma] OmiseGo’s comprehensive Plasma update #2
[Plasma] Latest Plasma implementer call
[Plasma] Loom Network’s architecture: Plasma Cash chain with two subchains
[Plasma] Plasma MVP in Vyper
[Plasma] A Plasma Debit explainer
[State channels] State channels for babies
[Moon] Victor Maia’s first post-Devcon3 update on Moon. Massively parallel, formally verified, a VM running on GPU with a native browser in Rust? Wow
Stuff for developers
LibSubmarine: Temporarily hide transactions using GasToken
Etherlime v.0.9 dev framework using ethers.js, now supports unit tests with code coverage. Etherlime tutorial
Revamped Embark documentation
Getting started with Drizzle + React tutorial
Solidity gas optimization tips
Ethereum in Google’s BigQuery, the ethereum_blockchain dataset updates daily. The dataset is also available at Kaggle.
Mythril to become a platform API for professional users
Loredana Cirstea meetup presentation of Pipeline visual IDE (video)
Origin messaging service using OrbitDB (they pin IPFS messages pre-Filecoin). Sign a message to create an Origin message private key that lives in local storage
Releases
Geth v1.8.15: miner fixes and more aggressive uncle inclusion. There’s also now a Geth discord channel
Enterprise
Blk.io’s Epirus enterprise platform - Quorum, Crux, an enterprise focused block explorer
EEA hackathon in Prague after Devcon
Live on mainnet
Town Square - a web3 version of Disqus using Eth + IPFS
Ecosystem
New Reddit tipbot supports Dai, KNC, OMG, REQ and DGX
Wyre is going to start issuing a kyc/aml NFT for dexes to use
Emre Tekisalp: understanding web3, a user-controlled internet
Governance and Standards
Core dev call on Constantinople. Decisions made: issuance reduction to 2 ETH per block, 12 month difficulty bomb delay, ProgPoW to be studied for next hard fork
Initial code for ERC1337’s subscription model
Aragon Labs governance ideas and experiments
EIP1355: Ethash1a minimal changes to thwart asic mining
ERC1361: Standardized AppLink for signing ETH Transactions on mobile
ERC1363: Payable token for ERC20, a la ERC721
Project Updates
With multi-collateral Dai, you can get interest for holding Dai
Raiden v0.6.0 webUI redesign and bug fixes
UX challenges in Golem and beyond
Storj launches v3 private alpha
Civil to license AP content for its newsrooms
Brave passes 10 million downloads just on Android. That’s partly because private mode on other browsers isn’t private at all. If you haven’t switched to Brave yet, here’s my referral code.
Aragon: your own personal DAO
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Jacob Czepluch Raiden presentation at Copenhagen meetup
Yahoo interview with Joseph Lubin (7m)
Gavin Wood Bloomberg interview (5m)
Maker DAO’s Rune Christensen on Stable Report
Benedikt Bünz talks VDFs and bulletproofs on ZeroKnowledge
Augur’s Joey Krug with Laura Shin
Joseph Lubin and Jimmy Song discuss the terms of their bet
Tokens / Business
Ambrož Homar: Is changing token models breaking promises or innovation?
A multi-phase bonding curve token model for decentralised SaaS
Pauk Kohlhaas: fund, curate and distribute IP with NFTs and curation markets
General
CBOE is telling market makers that Ether futures are coming soon
Reuters reports on the many layers of scam that is Venezuela’s Petro
Inside Coinbase’s key generation ceremonies
Elon Musk tweets: “At this point, I want ETH even if it is a scam”
Tim Swanson quantifies the electricity used by proof of work blockchains
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
September 5 - Zero Knowledge Summit (Berlin)
September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)
September 7-9 - ETHBerlin hackathon
September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)
September 12 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
September 13-14 - EEA Tech Spec working group (NYC)
September 21-23 - EthAtlanta
Sept 29 - Oct 1 - Ethfinex’s governance summit (Lugano)
Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland
Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)
Oct 24-25 - Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)
Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)
Oct 28-30 - Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague
Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)
Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)
Nov 2 - MetaMask to stop injecting web3
Nov 3-4 - Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)
Dec 7-9 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
Dec 7-9 - ETHSingapore hackathon
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